Wordless Wednesday – Thunderous Pet Portraits

I currently have three pet portraits going. Two are commission works and the other is one I asked to do because the photo was so inspiring. If you follow the dog blog of a three Chesapeake Bay Retrievers named after weather terminology and a large ship, then you know 2BrownDawgs.com. Go check out their site, then you will see why I was inspired to draw the following sketches:

Preliminary sketch of Thunder, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever.

My final sketch of Thunder before attempting to draw in color. (Can you hear AC/DCs song Thunderstruck playing in the background?)

Now check out the two commission pet portraits I am working on:

This is a photo of Deuce the cat.

The photo was at an angle I wasn’t happy with so I adjusted the angle and drew Deuce the cat from a more face-to-face angle.

The final sketch of Deuce is complete. I may need more photos to get the cat stripes right when I draw this in color.

This is a photo of Mos, a rescued dog with a sweet face.

The preliminary sketch of Mos.

This is the almost final sketch of Mos. I have another photo of Mos I can use to draw the ears better.

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[…] could use one of my photographs of Thunder to draw a pet portrait. Of course I was thrilled. Check out her fabulous sketch of Thunder. I think she captured his joy of retrieving! I cannot wait to see the one in color, although I […]